Video Gallery: Festival
India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) organised Past Forward: The Pleasure, Purpose and Practice of Arts Research from October 25 to 27, 2024, celebrating 70 diverse projects in Arts Research through panel discussions, film screenings, workshops, talks, performances, and an exhibition.
We are pleased to bring the videos of some of the conversations at the festival for you to watch and share with your network.
Festival Film
Catch brief glimpses into some of the exciting events at
Past Forward: The Pleasure, Purpose and Practice of Arts Research
and hear our grantees speak about the festival and their projects
supported under the Arts Research programme
Keynote
Muktabai's Legacy: The Search for Knowledge with Urvashi Butalia
Panel I
Decolonising the Image: Photography as a Research Method
Zubeni Lotha | KP Jayakumar | Sharbendu De | Dipti Tamang
Moderator: Shuddhabrata Sengupta
Panel II
Unpacking the Social Life of Rituals: Interdisciplinary Explorations
Hemachandran Karah | Rupsa Ray | Latika Gupta | Sarita Sundar
Moderator: Latika Gupta
Panel III
Towards a Counter-Cultural Aesthetics: Investigating the Artistic Form in Performance
Usham Rojio | Sharanya Ramprakash | Lakshmana KP | A Mangai
Moderator: A Mangai
Panel IV
Towards a Counter-Cultural Aesthetics: Community Engagement and the Arts
Sanchayan Ghosh | Ashok Lote | Anuradha | Rohit Kumar
Moderator: Sanchayan Ghosh
Panel V
Forgotten Genres, Publics and Practices: The Understated Ecosystem of Indian Cinema
Prachee Bajania | Yamini Krishna | Anuj Malhotra | Siddhi Goel
Moderator: Prachee Bajania
Panel VI
Out of Print: Tracing Overlooked Histories of Regional Magazines and Periodicals
Pankti Desai | V Jayashree | Haneena PA | Mangesh Narayanrao Kale | Susnato Chowdhury
Moderator: Sachin Ketkar
Deep Dive
Re/Looking at Archives, Arts and Archival Practice with Surajit Sarkar
Deep Dive
Feminist Histories in Search of an Archive with Urvashi Butalia
Guftugu
The Last Courtesan with Manish Gaekwad and Mridupankhi Rajkumari
Book Preview
Framing Portraits, Binding Albums: Family Photographs in India
with Shilpi Goswami | Suryanandini Narain | Urvashi Butalia | Surajit Sarkar | Menaka Rodriguez